UNIVERSITY WRITING SEMINAR

(UWS)

Curriculum overview
Requirement for all first year students
The courses aim to deepen students' understanding of the process of composition and revision, as well as to
cultivate their basic research skills
Over the course of the semester, researching, writing, and editing skills essential to the Brandeis
undergraduate curriculum will be developed

Department Information
At Brandeis, FYW curriculum is handled by the English Department. Before graduation, all students are
required to complete one writing-intensive course and either a second writing-intensive course or an oral
communication course.

Faculty

Drew Flanagan- Is a Ph.D candidate in the department of history at Brandeis

University studying 20th century French and German history. His research interests include
the Second World War and the early postwar period, transnational and borderlands history,
war and society studies, political anthropology and the history of memory. He holds a BA in
European history with High Honors from Wesleyan University and an MA in history from
Brandeis University. And has taught Remembering the resistance, Inside Nazi
Germany:Social and Political History of the Third Reich, & Social and Political History of the Third Reich.
Publications

2016 Theresienstadt Concentration Camp Documents, Special Collections Spotlight Blog,

Brandeis University, December 2016
2016 Franz Lehman Letters and Related Materials, Special Collections Spotlight Blog,
Brandeis University, July 2016

2011 Milton Hindus Meets the Monstrous Giant Cline, From the Archives Blog, Brandeis
University, December 2011
2011 French Revolution Pamphlets, Special Collections Spotlight Blog, Brandeis University,
November 2011

Conferences

2016 The Bridge Builders: German Francophiles from Conquest to Cooperation, 1945-52, The
Allied Occupation of Germany Revisited, German Historical Institute, London, United
Kingdom, September 2016, invited speaker
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Hanh Bui- A fourth year Ph.D student. She holds a B.A from Stanford University.
Hanh research interests include 16th and 17th British literature, early modern health and
conceptions of the body, materiality, age studies, medical humanities, and ethics. And has
taught Shakespeare in love,The Films of Disney and Literature and Medicine.

Publications

Glass, Time, and Age in Shakespeares Sonnets. In Shakespeares Things: Agency, Materiality, and
Performance. Edited by Brett Gamboa and Lawrence Switzky. Forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan,
2018

Awards

Mellon Dissertation Research Grant (2017)

Frankel Family Foundation Fellowship (2016)

Key texts

Write Now, which is a collection of exemplary UWS essays

Condensed outline/Syllabus

Major assignments: Research Paper, Lens essay, Close reading prompt

Syllabus/Calendar

Goals

Focus on writing several types of college-level essay effectively and persuasively

Students will share and workshop their writing with their classmates, culminating in a final research paper
Help students think critically about the choices they will make when constructing papers
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